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Erratum to “Serious analytical inconsistencies challenge the validity of the
energy balance theory”[Heliyon 6 7 (July 2020) e04204]
Francisco Arencibia-Albite
*
Universidad del Sagrado Coraz
on, Natural Sciences Department, Puerto Rico
In the original published version of this article, errors were intro-
duced to two equations shown on page 9. These have now been cor-
rected. The publisher apologizes for these mistakes. There was also a
typographical error in another equation on page 10. This has now been
corrected. The author apologizes for this mistake. Correct versions of
each equation can be found below. Both the HTML and PDF versions of
the article have been updated to correct the errors.
1
ρ
C
1
ρ
FrPkP
ρ
P
rFkF
ρ
FrCkC
ρ
C
rFkF
ρ
F1
ρ
P
1
ρ
FxP;EIavg
1
ρ
C
1
ρ
FrPkP
ρ
P
rFkF
ρ
FrCkC
ρ
C
rFkF
ρ
F1
ρ
P
1
ρ
F
1
ρ
C
1
ρ
FkP
ρ
P
kF
ρ
FkC
ρ
C
kF
ρ
F1
ρ
P
1
ρ
FxP;EIavg
1
ρ
C
1
ρ
FkP
ρ
P
kF
ρ
FkC
ρ
C
kF
ρ
F1
ρ
P
1
ρ
F
Thus, system (16) is equivalent to
xF;EEavg þxC;EEavg þxP;EEavg ¼1
1
ρ
C
1
ρ
FxC;EEavg þ1
ρ
P
1
ρ
FxP;EEavg ¼
1
ρ
EIavg
1
ρ
F
xP;EEavg ¼xP;EIavg
Δm¼Eeq
z}|{
>01
ρ
F
1
ρ
P
zfflfflfflfflfflfflffl}|fflfflfflfflfflfflffl{
<0
xF;EIavg xF;EEavg
zfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflffl}|fflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflffl{
<0
þEeq
z}|{
>01
ρ
C
1
ρ
P
zfflfflfflfflfflfflffl}|fflfflfflfflfflfflffl{
>0
xC;EIavg xC;EEavg
zfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflffl}|fflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflfflffl{
0
>0
DOI of original article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04204.
* Corresponding author.
E-mail address: franciscom.arencibia@sagrado.edu.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04609
Received 28 July 2020; Accepted 28 July 2020
2405-8440/©2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-
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Heliyon 6 (2020) e04609